JFK assassin's coffin auctioned off
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December 19, 2010, Sunday
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AN anonymous buyer has paid more than US$87,000 to purchase the wood coffin that held Lee Harvey Oswald's body for 20 years, an auction house said on Friday.
The winning bid of US$87,469, which included a 20 percent commission, exceeded the target price of US$60,000 set for the simple pine coffin that held the alleged presidential assassin's remains until 1981.
Oswald was arrested less than an hour after the November 22, 1963, assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He was shot and killed two days later, while in police custody, by nightclub owner Jack Ruby.
"This was a one-of-a-kind item. This was the first coffin that this auction house has ever auctioned and it was quite a unique item," said a spokesman for the Santa Monica, California-based auction house Nate D. Sanders.
Bidding began on the coffin when it was posted online two weeks ago. Auction house manager Laura Yntema declined to identify the buyer.
The winning bid of US$87,469, which included a 20 percent commission, exceeded the target price of US$60,000 set for the simple pine coffin that held the alleged presidential assassin's remains until 1981.
Oswald was arrested less than an hour after the November 22, 1963, assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He was shot and killed two days later, while in police custody, by nightclub owner Jack Ruby.
"This was a one-of-a-kind item. This was the first coffin that this auction house has ever auctioned and it was quite a unique item," said a spokesman for the Santa Monica, California-based auction house Nate D. Sanders.
Bidding began on the coffin when it was posted online two weeks ago. Auction house manager Laura Yntema declined to identify the buyer.
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